James Wan producing Dylan Dog TV series

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

Looks like James Wan is keeping himself super busy as today we have word that THE CONJURING and INSIDIOUS filmmaker will also be producing a new 10-episode live-action TV series based on the popular DYLAN DOG comic series. Wan is teaming up with Italian comics publisher Sergio Bonelli Editore to co-produce the English-language series based on Tiziano Sclavi’s popular franchise.

The 33-year-old comic book series centers on:

the exploits of its titular British paranormal investigator, who with his sidekick Grouch, a Marx impersonator, takes on cases that usually involve monsters, ghosts, vampires, werewolves and zombies.

The Milan-based publishers’ president Davide Bonelli said in a statement:

James Wan and Atomic Monster are masters of the horror genre and have a proven sensibility on how best to adapt comics to the screen. We are so thrilled to have this dream team working on one of our most important characters.

Wan also executive produces the series along with Vincenzo Sarno, Giovanni Cova, Michele Masiero, Simone Airoldi, Michael Clear, and Rob Hackett. Wan and the others are actively looking for writers for the series, which Wan called “one of my favorite comic books ever.”

This would, of course, be the newest adaptation of the popular comic with the previous being TMNT director Kevin Munroe's 2011 version starring once upon a time Superman Brandon Routh as the title character. That film was produced by Gilbert Adler and Scott Mitchell Rosenberg using a screenplay written by Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer based on the comic by Tiziano Sclavi. Along with Brandon Routh, the film featured Sam Huntington, Anita Briem, Peter Stormare, and Taye Diggs. Freestyle Releasing unleashed the movie into empty theaters back on April 29, 2011.